Not long after I entered the northwest, I heard the name Yao Xueli.
Because I like words, I like to make friends with people who have the same hobbies. When chatting with friends, the person I heard the most about was Yao Xueli. He was said to be the most famous native poet in Longdong area and a well-known writer at home and abroad. He has published more than 40 books and is now the chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles. .
Out of admiration for the teacher, I would like to find an opportunity to learn writing skills from him. I happened to meet a fellow painter of mine who was friends with the teacher and knew that I liked literature, so he took me to see the teacher. The teacher was in his sixties and was very approachable. He heard that I loved literature, so he started chatting with me enthusiastically. In the end, he gave me several copies of his books.
I read the teacher’s works carefully one by one, and I was deeply attracted by his words. To be honest, I have read a lot of books, but there are not many words that are as close to people's hearts as this. He can be said to be an all-round writer. His novels, essays, essays, and poems all have their own characteristics. The most common thing is that he has a strong local flavor.
The teacher was born and raised in the yellow land of Longdong. He integrated the breadth, depth and simplicity of the loess into his words and wrote one local literary work after another.
The yellow land raised him, and he will never forget this yellow land. In his collection of poems "The Unstoppable River", he vividly described every flower, tree, brick, tile, mountain and water in the loess land: "Jinghe", a classic river, will also The ripples of five thousand years continue to rise and fall until today; describing the helplessness of the farmers on the plateau in the face of drought: "The farmers sit in the dust." The farmers bury their hearts in the soil, and then poke their heads out of the thousands of layers of dust. Facing the sky, struggling desperately, shouting desperately, thirsting... Every sentence, every word, is soaked with the love of a child of the loess land for his hometown and the cry for poverty. He hopes that people in his hometown can become rich and live a happy life.
In his collection of essays "Weizhou Night Rain", he uses the primary colors of life like loess to depict for us an amazing original scene of the rural world. We can clearly see from each text that the barren yellow land has endowed these children of the yellow land with a rich spiritual world. From the history of Nuwa using soil to create humans, let us remember that our lives are inseparable from soil. We are all born in the soil and grow in the soil. The soil is the guarantee of our lives. He uses historical stories one by one to allow people to have a deeper understanding of the rich and long history of Longdong: this is the source of the development of painting culture, the source of the development of acupuncture culture, the source of the development of Chinese matrilineal society, and the development of Chinese Taoist culture. Source is the name of a historical culture in China.
His eyes are sharp. He organically integrates history with the present, vividly describes each historical figure, analyzes their successes and failures in an orderly manner, and connects them with social reality. Readers can learn a lot of knowledge and principles of life during the reading process. From "Wang Yun's Eyeball Economy" to "Beware of Sima Zhao's View of Purpose"; from "Meng Huo's Overlord" to "Wei Yan's Wisdom", every article is analyzed so carefully and meticulously, the shape and psychological changes of the characters are It is even more vividly displayed.
He is a son and daughter of the Yellow Earth, and his roots are in Longdong. He could not forget those fellow villagers who were born and raised like him, so he integrated his love into the words, and put the stories of the children of the Yellow Earth into his words. The roughness, boldness, simplicity, kindness, and the lifestyle and attitude passed down from generation to generation in this rich land are all recorded in writing, so that everyone who reads it can understand the customs and customs of the west. His pen is agile, just like his thoughts. He not only eulogized the good side, but also boldly wrote about the dark side of society that he saw to attract everyone's attention. Paying attention to disadvantaged groups has always been the mainstream of his writing, and it is a must for a good writer. In the essay "Water Village", he vividly described the current situation of the water village. Those villagers who are still living in dire straits due to lack of water never wash their faces or take a bath. I only wash it when it rains, because if I don’t wash it for a long time, the lice on my body will be as big as a grain of rice. I don’t even know what color the children’s faces are. Because of the traffic congestion and water shortage, the children there rarely go to school and go out to work at a very young age to make money. The entire prose uses five to six thousand words to describe the life of Shuicun and its people in detail. The language is the local dialect, and the readers are presented with vivid scenes. The readers can't help but shed tears while reading, and it is also inspiring. More enthusiastic people have joined the team to help Shuicun get rid of poverty.
The mountains in Longdong are as broad as mountains, and the soil in Longdong is as thick as soil. The people in Longdong have as open-minded as the mountains and as broad and simple minds as the soil. Teacher Yao Xueli walked among the mountains and rivers of Longdong, burying all his pain deep in his heart. He was like a green pine on the top of Kongtong Mountain, guarding the pure land of literature in obscurity for decades. , lowering his head to explore deeper into literature.
He wrote in the essay "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days on the Road": "At this moment, we are always on the road, and the three hundred and sixty-five days are the mileage of a year. In life, every year there is the germination of spring, the warmth of summer, the maturity of autumn, and the calmness of winter. There are winds and rains, lightning and thunder, ice, snow, frost and fog paving the way, the red and blue of brocade, and the white and black of night. Changes on the road.
The years are always accompanied by twists and turns, and are always flat and distant, but in front of us is a continuous transition day by day. Who can live without the pulse of life, is it a ghost or an immortal? But you can't break away from the heavy body and let your soul go alone. To dominate everything is to dominate the world, and the endless road is just a fragment of life. Life is the road, and the road is the process of life. Only the process is more important than the beginning and the result. The beginning is life, the end is death. Life, life, and death often make it difficult to distinguish the beginning from the end. Only the process is an existence. Three hundred and sixty-five days of journey! "Only when you see through the true meaning of life can you write such sensible words. Life is a road, and the end and beginning of everyone are the same, but the walking process is different. Strong people walk out of their own glory.
For a writer, he writes amidst the contradictions between thoughts and emotions. On the one hand, he wants to discover the difference between reality and the past, and on the other hand, he wants to make people remember the ancient local tradition. This is what a serious thinker has to face. Discovering the unity and harmony with nature is the main theme of his prose, and the vivid customs and people in his writings are full of the blood of regional culture. The characters and attitudes toward life shown in a series of prose essays such as "The Scavengers" and "There Are No Ugly Flowers" are all derived from his deep understanding of nature and characters, and are also related to his better understanding of the things around him. A profound exploration of the interconnectedness.
In this society dominated by money and materialistic desires, there are too few pure literary works, and there are not many texts that can truly reflect the country. Faced with the pursuit of diversified life concepts and visions, writers only choose what kind of words to write to cater to our eyes, without realizing the responsibilities on their shoulders. In fact, fast food literature has become the mainstream of the literary market today. The thinking we have to face is a very complex project. Under such a premise, how to protect the literature with local themes is worthy of attention. Teacher Yao Xueli can always stick to the pure land of local literature. What is worthy of our praise is that the thinking he aroused is not only about the land of Longdong where he lives, which is rich in history and culture, but also about the entire rural land of China.
Teacher Yao Xueli’s artistic style is in harmony with the countryside. Combining tradition and regional culture. His prose is generally long, and his articles are usually written based on his own thinking, extending his ideas from nature and incorporating his own insights into the true narrative. Most of the articles he writes are full of emotion and emotion. This state of writing is inseparable from his deep understanding of local traditions and admiration for regional culture. Because of this, at a glance, his articles are astonishing. It is very ordinary, but if you read it carefully, it is thought-provoking and worth pondering and learning.
Longdong is rich in high mountains and thick soil, and there is also a literary master worthy of our respect and learning-Teacher Yao Xueli, who is known as a literati. His identity is rooted in this land. During his decades of literary career, he has written millions of words, and the amount of sweat he put in is unimaginable to ordinary people.
As a student who admires him, a few strokes cannot capture the essence of the teacher’s writings. However, I sincerely hope that Teacher Yao Xueli will dig deeper into the local theme, and I sincerely wish that the teacher’s literary path will become broader and broader!